#reached

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is. ↗

— Alan Kay

#before #believe #demands #everyone #few

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#almost #anything #become #effort #hard

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#change #false #false sense #fickle #into

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#been #before #degeneration #everybody #exhausted

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#always #attitude #attitudes #changed #changing

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#class #class family #come #everyday #family

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Golda Meir

#found #having #look #men #other

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#below #could #deep #delightful #donald

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation. ↗

— Amr Moussa

#arab #arabs #cannot #iraqi #participation